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Entered, according to Ai t of I ongress, in the year 1874, by the Erie Railwaj ' ompany, in the ( tffice of the Librariai Washington 



i\Ti;oi>reTio\ r . 

^"HE management of the Erie Railway Compan) pre- 
sents the "Tourist" to its patrons, friends, and the 
genera] public, in this form, to introduce a more intimate 
and detailed knowledge of the beauties, advantages, and 

resources of its line. 

The route of the Erie Railwaj is peculiarly rich among 
American railroads in the variety and extent of il 
In the following pages only a very few of the abounding 
landscapes of the route have been reproduced. The val- 
le\ of the Xeversink, as seen from the grade east of Port 
Jervis. rivals the view from the Starucca Viaduct ; and the 
panorama of beauty in the valley of the Delaware is con- 
tinually interesting in the rapidly alternating glimpses of 
river, gaps, and mountains. Passing their summit, the 
pastoral beauties of the vallcvs of the Susquehanna and 
Chemung rivers widen into broader and more cultivated 
landscapes, reaching back to the receding mountains. 
Ascending again to the "Summit" which divides the wa- 
ters between the ocean, the great lakes, and rivers, the 
Genesee and Alleghany rivers present new varieties of 
picturesque scenery, which will interest the observing 
business or pleasure traveler. 

While the enjoyments of travel are enhanced 
prodigal attractions of Nature, which it is the desire to 
make more generally known, the route of the Erie Rail- 
way is also interesting in a consideration of its improve- 
ments and resources. 

The following pages, therefore, state briej di 



salient interest concerning the cities and towns along the 
line, and make general reference to the traffic n 

[opment of which, upon a basis alike profit 
the transporter and the transported, it is believed will in- 
sure permanent prosperity to the Company, to the people, 
and to the enterprises tributary to the line. 

To present these considi fully than be- 

fore, this volume is issued ; and it is believed that a trip 
via the Erie Railway in its broad, richly-appointed cars. 
running over a track which challenges compari 
smoothness and safety, will be both pleasantly and profit- 
ably beguiled by a perusal of 

"THE ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST." 




THE ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST 




"AT HOHOKUS." 
While there may be grander views on the line of the 
Erie Railway than that which the artist has sketched 
under the foregoing title, there are certainly none more 
lovely or alluring to the lover of nature. The view is 
taken looking eastward. On the right ascends a bold and 
tin. kly-wooded hillside ; in the foreground is a heavy piece 
of masonry, .spanning a watercourse some fifty or sixty feet 
while on the left, though unfortunately beyond the 
limits of the picture, stretching away from the base of the 
hill, the historic Paramus Valley, a glance at which from 
the car-window in passing discloses many points of inter- 
est. Close at hand is the former home of the beautiful 
.Miss Prevost, who became the wife of Aaron Burr; far- 
ther off in the valley is the old Paramus Church, tempo- 
rarily used as a prison-house by the British soldiery during 
the Revolution, while under the shadow of the green hills, 
bounding the valley's farther verge, is the country-seat of 
Jefferson, the famous comedian. 



ERIE SUMMER RESORTS. 
Everybody who can, leaves 
New York or its environs du- 
ring the warm weather. Some, 
whose purses are long, hie them 
to Long Branch, Newport, or 
Saratoga. But, by far the lar- 
ger number, people of mode- 
rate means or quieter inclina- 
tions, eschew the haunts of 
fashion, and hurry away to 
some quiet nook in the coun- 
try, or to some of the pictu- 
resque villages and towns which 
bestud Northern New Jersey 
and Orange county within a 
distance of a hundred miles 
from the metropolis. 

In a work recently publish- 
ed by the Erie Railway Com- 
panv, entitled, "Where shall 
we spend tile Summer ?" accu- 
rate information relating to all 
such points has been furnished 
gratuitously to the million. Let 
us here take a hurried glimpse of the hints— 
and they are good ones — which it offers those 
for a summer country boarding-place. It will 
surprise us, en passant, to note how the first hundred 
miles teem with cosy resorts of all varieties, from the 
modest farmhouse in the meadow-land, or the mountain 
cottage nestling under the shadows of wildest hillsides, 
to the summer hotels, fitted up with all the conven- 
; cit) life. Here are Rutherfurd Park, with its 
fine summer hotel, and its splendid boating facilities on 
the Passaic; Clifton, overlooking the picturesque Lake 
Dundee; Ridgewood and Hohokus in the historic Para- 
mus Valley; Suffern and Ramapo, with their good hotels 
and bracing mountain air ; Cornwall and Newburgh nest- 
ling among the Highlands of the majestic Hudson ; Green- 
wood Lake, surrounded by mountains, and with three first- 
class hotels facing it; Goshen, Florida, and Middletown, 
all mi them delightful places right in the heart of the fa- 
mous dairy region of Orange county, a land literally flow- 
ing with milk and honey , Seven-Spring Mountain, a pic- 
turesque resort near Monroe, and rendered attractive by 
an extensive and well-kept hotel ; Guymard, another 
charming retreat on the Shawangunk mountain-side over- 
looking the Xeversink Valley ; Port Jervis, on the Dela- 
ware, almost shut in by high mountain-peaks, and most 
romantically located ; Milford, eight miles from it, famed 
for its fine hotels, tiptop cookery, and pretty scenery; 



lookint 



T il E E R 1 1- RA LLWAV I'OUR] ST 



Monticello and White Lake, in the i entre 
of the finest trout and game region in the 
State , Lake Mohonk, a 1" autiful I 
water, lying i,200 feet above l H 

is within five miles easy vide of N< 
on the Wallkill Vallej Bran( h extending 
from Goshen. From this point i 
Eagle's Cliff near by, may be gained a 

view that is s rand and im- 

pressive. Below lie the Rondout and Wall- 
kill valleys; to the east winds the Hud- 
son, beyond which may bo traced the 
misty lines of the Green Mountains; while 
in the west, from the Alleghanies in the 
southwest to the Cone of Overlook in the 
north, the entire horizon is bounded by a 
piled-up wall of blue. So great has the 
popularity of this spot become, that it lias 
been found necessary to enlarge the ca- 
ll, i itv of the hotel which is here situated, 
and which will now accommodate four 
hundred guests. The Overlook Mountain 
House, situated on Mount Overlook, a 
peak of the Woodstock Catskills, 3,860 
feet high, is another attractive summer 
resort, and may be reached by the Wall- 
kill Valley and New York, Kingston, and 
Syracuse Railways in connection with the 
Erie From every room in the hotel, which accommodates 
five hundred guests, a magnificent view is obtained. The 
valley of the Hudson can be seen for one hundred miles, 
and the range of sight comprises also the Shawangunk, 
Catskill, and Berkshires. This has been a favorite re- 
sort for many years, and is visited annually by some of 
the most noted men in the country. All these make up 
the more prominent summer resorts to which, in every 
succeeding season of warm weather, long trains of city- 
tired passengers hasten by way of the Erie Railway. 
Then, in imagination, fill in the chinks of the picture with 
a thousand-and-one farmhouses — out-of-the-way places, 
but clean, attractive, and hospitable, where one in the 
dog-days may idle, read, sleep, eat, ride, and fish to his 
heart's content. Imagine all these, we say, and you gain 
some idea of the extent of annual travel from New York 
to local summer resorts on the Erie Railway. 




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RURAL RETREATS ON I HI ERI1 R ML WAV. 

and may be reached within a few hours by taking the 
trains of the Erie Railway to Tort Jervis, the western 
terminus of the Eastern Division. 



STONY BROOK GLEN. 
About two miles from Dansville, the southern termi- 
nus of the Dansville and Mount Morris Branch of the Eric 
Railway, is the charming Glen of this name. As a resort 
for pleasure-seekers and Picnic and Excursion parties, it 
possesses many attractions, and is growing steadily in 
popular esteem. Its proximity to the cell 
Springs commands for it a very liberal p 
the visitors at that resort, while its convenience of access 
from the city of Rochester, acquires for it a name and 
fame in the western part of the State, worthy < 
mention. 

ROCK CITY. 
Six miles from Salamanca, on the Western Division oJ 
the Erie Railway, is the wonderful and interesting place 
Ix its season there is no finer sport than trout-fishing ; | of this name. The peculiar formation of the rocks which 
and no region in the vicinity of New York abounds in here abound, and their immense size and unlimited num- 
streams more replete with the "spotted beauties," than | ber, excite the curiosity and astonish the hundreds of vis- 
Pike and Wayne Counties in Pennsylvania, and Sullivan I itors who include a trip to this place in their round of 
County in New York, all of which places are tributary to, ' annual Excursion tours. 



THE HOME OF THE TROUT. 



THE ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST 



THROUGH TRAVEL BY THE ERIE RAILWAY. 
p j 1M { then is no better gauge by which to measure 
the immense through travel which passes over the Erie 
Railway during any given period, than the number of 
the sleeping and drawing-room coaches which is daily 
^•nt out from the depot at Jersey City for each of the 
prominent Western cities. Time was, and nol ver) long 
ago either, when to travel a hun- 
dred miles or so in the same 
i considered no 
small achievement ; but this sinks 
into insignificance when we see 
dail) departing from the fei • ■■ 
City terminus of the line palatial 
Pullman coaches, each destined 
for some one of the prim ipal cit- 
ies in the West. Here, for in- 
stance, is one in which the trav- 
eler, without alighting, may be 
carried to Buffalo and Niagara 
Falls ; another which crosses the 
Great Suspension Bridge, and 
goes on over the Great Western 
Railway of Canada to I >etroi1 , 
another which continues on over 
the same route via the Michi- 
gan Central to Chicago; another 
which runs through In way of 
the Atlantic and Great Western 
Railway to Cleveland ; another 
which carries its passet I 

1 1 tad and without change, 
to Cincinnati; and last, hut by 
no means least, a sixth coach 
iauses not until it has 
I it hi r oi W iters, 
and landi i jet s in the 

of St. I ,ouis. 
No amounl of experiem e or 
habit, however much it familiar- 
izes us with Ami 

ever sei vi tmon 

place to the thot 
the grandeur ol 
as this, which dail) sends out its 

\'ur less worth 

remark are the interiot oi tl aches themselves The 

upholsti i e i ombined to render 

them mi . in which, by day or by night, the 

traveler may be surrounded with all the luxurious ap- 
pointments of a first-class hoteL And thus it is that 
modern railway trawl has been divested of its tedium and 



inconveniences, and a ride over the Erie Railway rendered 
an event pleasant enough to be remembered for a lifetime. 




PARROTT FURNACES AT GREENWOOD. 
The Parrott Furnaces at Greenwood give the passen- 
ger, as he is whisked by them, a suggestive hint of the 
activity and enterprise which have developed themselves 
even here in the wild passes of 
the Ramapo Mountains. Here 
were forged, in the last century, 
the great chains which were used 
to obstruct navigation at West 
Point; and here to-day are man- 
ufactured the materials for the 
Parrott guns, which have spoken 
lor themselves so loudly in every 
quarter of the globe. 

Rut it is at night, when dark- 
ness has come down over field 
and finest, that the traveler, in 
passing Greenwood, looks out 
upon these furnaces to see them 
in their most striking phase. 
The lurid light, flashing from the 
glowing fiery portals, throws weird 
reflections and shadows far out 
upon the darkened mountain side, 
revealing here and there the pyg- 
my forms of the workmen hurry- 
ing, imp-like, hither and thither 
at their toils. Great volumes of 
black smoke belch forth from the 
towering funnels and chimneys, 
only to be caught suddenly by 
the mountain breezes and car- 
ried far away out of vision. Some 
striking scene from Dore' and 
Dante, seems to have been sud- 
denl) pictured upon the dark- 
ness of night. And yet. ere the 
surprised and wistful gazer has 
realized the vision, it has gone, 
and he louks nut again only upon 
darkness. 



works AT NIGHT 



ORANGE LAKE. 



()\i of the must picturesque sheets of inland water in 
the country, is situated six miles west from Newburgh, 
and ma) be reached in a few hours, via the Erie Rail- 
way. Its attractions for tourists ami those fond t<i aquatic 
and piscatorial sports are numerous, and will repay a 
visit. 



Til E ERIE RA1 LWA Y TOUR] ST 



BLOODED ST 

As famous as is i )range * bounty for its 
milk ami butter, no less renowned 
its blooded stock, specimens of which 
ma) be seen in almost evei 
country. To have paid more than a thou- 
sand dollars a few years ago for a horse 
that could trot a mile under three min- 
utes, was considered an exoi bitanl 

hoi se that i ould perform this feat 
was considered quite a phenomenon ; while 
to-day there arc hundreds of horses raised 
in < (range ( bounty, that can trot a mile in 
less than three minutes, and very many 
for which their owners would prompt!) 
refuse twent) in.- thousand dollars. 

Chester, Goshen, and Middletown, in 
i (range County, have the finest stables of 
thoroughbred-stock.which are visited week 
ly by admirers of tine stock from every 
section of the country. 

The Erie Railwa) passes through these 
beautiful villages. 



Visitors to the United States, and Americans return- 
ing from abroad, are met on their arrival at tin' port of 
New York by courteous and experienced agents of the 
Erie Railwa) Company, who furnish them with all desired 
information respecting the route, its connections, rates of 
fare, time-tables, etc. 








FALLS ON THE RAMAPO 
Tins lively stream, one of the chief tributaries of the 
Passaic, has its rise in Orange Co., New York, whence 
it flows southward into New Jersey, uniting its waters 
with those of the Pequannock at Pompton, and a few- 
miles farther with those of the former river. At no point 
in its career, however, does it present a more striking or 
picturesque aspect than in the wild valley by which it 
OUgh the mountain range which [ 
its name. With a rapid fall, it furnishes. 
at various points, a splendid w.ite: 
for manufacturing purposes, while at oth- 
ers presenting numerous prett) i as< ades 
and bits oi sylvan scenery such as the 
artist has presented in the engraving 
given herewith. 

I r is at Lackawaxen that the Dela- 
ware and Hudson Canal, connecting the 
coal re P nnsylvania with the 

Hudson at Kingston, crosses the Dela- 
ware river, spanning it by an aqueduct, 



THE ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST 



WHAT GIVES POPULARITY TO A RAILWAY ? 

ist. Goon management ; a strict regard to the com- 
fort and safely of passengers. 

2d. Low rates of fare, fostering and encouraging travel. 

3d. Suitable equipment, with trains sufficient to accom- 
modate all the business that offers. 

4th. Regularity in the running of trains. 

5th. Suitable eating-houses, at convenient points on 
the line. 

6th. Variety and richness of scenery. 

All these, and more which might be added, contribute 
to the well-earned success and popularity of the Erie 
Railway. 



A SCENE ON THE DELAWARE. 
The upper waters of the Delaware abound in scenery 
of the wildest and most picturesque description, the river 
banks at many points descending in precipitous abrupt 
cliffs of rock to the very water's edge, rendering the origi- 
nal construction of the railway through this valley a work 
of no ordinary difficulty. At other points the river has 
left deposits of soil along its margin, oases, as it were, in 
the desert of rock, where trees have grown, and cattle may- 
find a pasture-ground. It is one of these latter spots that 
the artist has chosen to portray in the accompanying 
beautiful engraving. 









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OLD BRIDGE OVER THE DELAWARE-NARROWS- 
BURG. 

Here the artist has sketched an old-fashioned country 
scene in one of the wildest portions of the Delaware Val- 
ley traversed by the Erie Railway. The old covered 
bridge is of a style frequently seen in that region, which, 
by the way, is the scene of many of the most stirring 
incidents in Fenimore Cooper's famous novel, 
of the Mohicans." 



The Last 



EMPLOYES OF THE ERIE RAILWAY. 
In the service of the Erie Railway there are over 
12,000 employes. From this some idea maybe formed 
of the rapid growth and development of an enterprise 
which, in its inception, was regarded by the " knowing 
ones" as an undertaking involving the greatest pecuniary 
risk. " Small beginnings achieve great results ;" and the 
Erie Railway of to-day, when contrasted with the " New 
York & 1 ■ . furnishes another ill 

of the correctness of this trite old adage. 



GREENWOOD LAKE 
Is situated in Orange Co., within ten miles of Monroe, 0:1 
the line of the Erie Railway, at which point stages con- 
nect twice daily for the lake. 

As a summer resort it enjoys considerable distinction, 
owing to its proximity to the city, the variety of means of 
enjoyment which it offers, and the hcalthfulness and beauty 
of the locality. 

PASSENGER AND FREIGHT EQUIPMENT. 
There arc owned and in use by the Eric Railway 
Company in the transportation of its passengers and 
freight, over live hundred engines, more than four hun- 
dred passenger, mail, baggage, and Express car-. 
sivc of Drawing-room and Sleeping coaches.) and about 
eleven thousand freight cars. A railway whose equipment 
is so great, and withal of the best and most approved 
patterns and finish, deserves to take rank among the lead- 
ing passenger and freight thoroughfares of the country. 



1 II 7 : ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST. 







A SCii.Vli ON THE UKT.A U'AUli MiAK < \I 



THE ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST, 



SUBURBAN HOMES ON THE ERIE. 

The remarkable growth and development within the 
past ten years of the counties of New Jerse) adjacent to, 
01 within twenty miles of New York city, are to be as- 
cribed, more than to any other cause, to the enterprise 
and liberality with which the various railways which trav- 
erse them are conducted. Before these railways were 
constructed it was considered impracticable for any one 
doing business in Xew York city to live elsewhere than 
on Manhattan Island, or possibly in Brooklyn or Jersey 
City. Now, on the other hand, thousands upon thousands 
of men in every sphere and avocation of metropolitan 
business life have their homes in New Jersey, and find 
them fully as easy of access as an up-town residence. 
Prior to i860, the growth of New York exceeded greatly 
that of the seven neighboring counties of New Jersey, 
viz.: Bergen, Passaic, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Morris, 
and Union; but in that year their relative growth was as 
sixty-four to fifty-eight in favor of the latter, and this pro- 
portion had increased in 1.S70 to the enormous ratio of 
sixty to sixteen. At that time, the census showed a pop- 
ulation of 942,292 in New York, as against 813,669 in 
i860— and a population of 449,337 in the seven Xew Jer- 
sey counties, as against 287,876 in i860. At the present 
time, of the 2.220,627 souls living in New York and a 
radius of forty miles around it. twenty-four and a quarter 
per cent, are residents of New Jersey. 

In inviting and accommodating this class of daily 
suburban travel, the Erie Railway has displayed a far-see- 
ing and liberal spirit. Its trains to local points are fre- 
quent and fast; its commutation rates so moderate as 
wen to justify surprise. The result, however, has shown 
itself in a gratifying growth along the entire Eastern 
Division of the line. Where ten years ago were only 
farms and woods, villages and towns have sprung into 
e as if by magic, while the sleepy hamlets of a 
ago have taken an infusion of new life, and fairly 
bristle with metropolitan activity. Every year hundreds 
more are finding their way out from the high rents and 
crowded quarters of New York to healthful and attractive 
homes on the line of the Erie Railway. Rutherfurd Park, 
with its eight thousand inhabitants. Clifton, Lake 
View, overlooking the beautiful Dundee lake, P 
itself a great city of forty thousand. Hawthorne. Ridge- 
wood, Hohokus, and Suffern, all teem with New York 
business men, who wisely prefer a ride to and from their 
ies to a tiresome jolt up and 
down town in 1 rowded cit) 

The same may be said of hundreds who dwell on the 

• the various I the Erie within twenty 

miles of New York; on the Newark and l'aterson branch, 

which follows the romantic Passaic; on the Ilackensack 

branch, which borders the river of the same name ; and 



on the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, which, skirting 
the western slope of the Palisades, finds again an outlet to 
the Hudson at Nyack. 

Further on up the main line too, at Turner's, Monroe, 
Goshen, Newburgh, Middle-town, and Port Jervis, are to 
be found the homes of hundreds of wealthy New-Yorkers, 
who, having passed the hurry and activity of life's noon- 
day, find in these beautiful resorts, quiet homes from 
which they may vet conveniently visit New York when- 
ever business demands. Year by year the exodus hither- 
ward iin leases, and the day is certainly not distant when, 
for the first twenty-five or thirty miles of its route, the Erie 
Railway will traverse one continuous rural city, the crea- 
tion in a great measure of its own liberality and enterprise. 



THE ERIE RAILWAY FERRIES. 

CONNECTING the lower part of New York city and its 
eastern and southern environs with New Jersey, is the 
Chambers street Ferry of the Erie Railway; and con- 
necting the upper portion of the city with New Jersey is 
the Twenty-third street Ferry of the Erie Railway. 

These two ferries are crossed annually by 3,000,000 peo- 
ple, thousands of whom transact business in New York, 
but reside on the Line of the Erie Railway ; thousands 
are residents of Jersey City and its suburbs, while thou- 
sands seek these ferries in their passage between the Me- 
tropolis and the great West and South. 

The number of boats run on these two ferries is six, 
of which four are in dail) use, and two are held in reserve. 

On the Chambers street ferry trips are made every 
fifteen minutes, and on the Twenty-third street ferry 
every half hour. 

The advantages of having two ferries connecting N( w 

York with the Jersey City depot of the Erie Railwaj 1 an 

nol be overestimated. Many of the leading business 

oi the Metropolis have removed from their old 

"down town" to the vicinity of Twenty-third 

street, while nearly all of the principal hotels are located 

above 1 wenty-third street. The Twenty-third street ferry 

ommunication with these houses and 

the upper portion of the city, and relieves the tedium of a 

trip through the < rowded thoroughfares of the city by the 

ordinary means of conveyance — the city horse-cars. 

The Chambers street Ferry communicates directly 
with the larger mercantile, banking, newspaper, and pri- 
vate and public institutions in the lower portion of the 
city, and thus accommodates a large and growing travel. 
^ninne to the wharves of the principal lines of 
ocean, sound, and liver steamers, also commands for it a 
very liberal patn 

The Erie Railway, it will thus be seen, has admirably 
ferries, as well as an unsurpassed rout< I 
munication between tin- East and the West. 



THE ERIE RAILWAY 1 O U RJ ST 




at which all expre 
able hou 

horrid 
iusion with « 

ription 

l ■ . 

in externa] app > inter- 

nal appointments and conducl are 

again feeling that he 1 da full 

investment. The Erie Rail 
lias, in 

this regard ; and thi doubt- 

less largely commending the Li: 
route for travi : 
pleasure compels to jourm 
between the Atlantic and the inland 
States. 



A WATER TANK ON THE ERIE. 
The rapidity and voracity with which the iron horse 
quenches his thirst from one of these enormous 
whii h. brimming full, await him at various intervals on his 
wild careering across the country, are all but incredible to 
those who have not seen him partaking. Parched and 
thirsty, he pauses for a moment or two to refresh himself 
with the cooling torrent which pours itself into his enor- 
mous jaws at a fearful rate, when lo ! before apparently all 
have alisrhted or embarked, his thirst is 



tin 






slaked and he is off again. 



NO " MUGBY JUNCTIONS- ON THE ERIE RAILWAY. 
Some recent wit has said that more crime results from 
empty stomachs than from vicious brains, and supple- 
ments it with then orollary thai there is loss virtue in mor- 
als than in beef and potatoes. Be this 
statement or not, one thing is certain — that a man's views 
of men and things in general depend a good deal upon 
whether he is hungry or no. He must be more than mor- 
tal who can deal gently with his fellow-creatures, or smi- 

irvey a lovely landscape, while experience 
ward protest against that vacuum which nature is especially 
said to abhor. Therefore it will be admitted that there 
was consummate wisdom and forethought displayed in the 
arrangement which has provided at intervals alo 
line of tin- Erie Railwaj . i ommodious hotels or restaurants, 

•1 



THE ERIE RAILWAY BAGGAGE EXPRESS. 
i to the patroi 
Erie Railway, and one which elicil • 
tion, is the perfect and well-organized system of B 

to and from its depots in ' ' rid New 

York. ' 

]' engers purchasing tickets via '.lie Erie Railway 
in New York or Brooklyn, and desiring their I 
removed to the depot, have nov 
at the offi' es of the Compan 

to destination. This is a great desideratum, ai 
away with the annoyance and loss of time so frequently 

to the 
( ustody of indifferent and irresponsible ( ity expi 
panics. 

Nor is the Erie Railw i I ! ' irc " ni - 

ons leaving the city ; incoming pas- 
sengers are alike benefited by it. as before the arrival of 
trains in the Jersey Cit) depot, an 
and takes up checks 

of New York or Brooklyn it maj be ordered 

sent. 

Passengers who have suffered from a delay in the 
delivery of the- ' appreciate this 

of the Erie Railway Company to remedy and remove what 
dly regarded to be the most annoying feature of 

railroad I 



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WHITE LAKE 

This attractive summer resort, which has been Eoi 
mam years a favorite with the New York public, is situa- 
ted in Sullivan County, near Monticello, which is connected 
with the main line of the Erie Railway by a Branch Rail- 
way from Port Jervis. 

Its access is therefore rendered both easy and comfort- 
able ; and no wonder it is that during the hot and sultry 
fuly and August, it is thronged with visitors, who 
here find allurements for recreation and pleasure and a 
bracing mountain air of which but few localities can 
boast. 



forty thousand inhabitants, and fairly points to its numer- 
ous locomotive works, its silk mills, and its numberless 
other varied industries in proof of its claims to be entitled 
the Manchester or the Lyons of America. No traveler 
who can spare a few hours should fail to stop over at Pat- 
erson and visit the Passaic Falls and the busy city 
about it. 



AVON SPRINGS. 



Avon Springs have for the last twenty years been 
more or less famed as a resort for invalids, their waters 




OLIMI'SE Ol- THE DELAWARE, NEAR OALUCOON. 



• PASSAIC FALLS. 
I\ the heart of the great manufacturing city of Pater- 
son, distant on the line of the Erie Railway only seven- 
teen miles from New York, are the renowned Falls of the 
onl) to Niagara in grandeur and beauty. 
these halls in their peculiar configuration are said 
to have but one parallel, so far as known, on the globe, 
and that is the fall of the Mosi-oa-tunya, "Sounding 
Smoke." or Victoria Falls, on the Zambesi River in Afri- 
ca, which, though vastly exceeding the Passaic cataract in 
height and volume, is so exactly its counterpart in all 
i a bird's eye view of either might 
easily be mistaken for that of the other. The height of 
is seventy-five feet, furnishing, as may be 
I, in addition to the splendid scenery aboul it, a 
valuable water-power. It was this latter which induced 
Alexander Hamilton to establish here, in 1791, the manu- 
facturing town of Paterson, win. h has grown to ,, city of 



possessing many valuable healing properties. '1 he Springs 
are located within a mile of the village of Avon, which is 
on the Rochester Division of the Erie Railway, and con- 
nected by two daily trains with New York. 



ITHACA. 

Of the many interesting ami attractive Summer Re- 
sults of easy .in ess from New Vork. Ithaca is worthy of 
special mention. Its situation is at the head ol Cayuga 
Lake. J Jo miles from New York, and is reached in about 
ten hours, via the Erie Railway, 

The scenery in the immediate vicinity of Ithaca com- 
pares favorably with that of Watkins Glen, and is regarded 
ill) sublime. The numerous ('.is, ades and 
halls which here present themselves in rapid sip 
afford the Tourist some of the finest views of American 
scenery. 



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THE SCENERY ON THE ERIE RAILWAY. 
One continued panorama, as varied as it is beautiful, 
greets the eye of the traveler by the Erie Railway from 
\, ■ \ ork to either of its great western termini. It may, 
in fact, be questioned whether an) other of the great lines 
of through travel in America, or even in the world, affords 
so many strikingly beautiful scenes, and such a variet) of 
them withal, as are presented by this broad, double-tracked 
highway, extending in a majestic sweep through valley 
and meadow and mountain pass from the Hudson Rivei 



to the Great 1 ' »hio River. I hrou ;h all the 

. n the mosl unobsei vanl l 
feasted with a succession ol natural beautii 
not but impress themselves vividly upon his mind, to re- 
main then- long aftei 

What stream in Amei iful than 

the I'assaie. upon the wooded shores of which, lined with 
! lawns, the traveler looks down from lb. 
its plaeid current ? What grai 
tn, 11 ,,i American enterprise and growth can be I mind than 
the citj "l Paterson, with its busy shops and silk mills : 
Port Jervis, with its ceaseless roaring of railway trains 
and its immense < oal traffii . and H Elmira, 

and Hornellsvilte, with their rapid development as inland 
emporia — all oi them annuall) bringing to theii b 
tor, the Ei ie Railwa) , it irds foi it s bi 

Nor in man's handiwork alone does the travi 
the most to admire in traversing the line. In the wild 
passes of the Ramapo ; the fertile and picturesque land- 
scapes of that great dairy region, < )range < lounty, and along 
the ^iddy slopes of the weird Shawangunk Mountain. 
looking down upon the thickl) populated valley of the 
Neversink, he will see ever new beauties, furnishing ma- 
terial foi evei deeper admiration. Or when the train. 
seemingly losing itself anion- the mountain ranges 
which skirt the upper Delaware, shouts along the river 
brink, overshadowed by giant hills which appear to look 
frowningly down upon this invasion ol theii domain, is 
there not a grandeui in the surroundings which bids defi- 
ance to the tameness and routine of every-day existence? 
Then, emergingfrom the hilly country, the passenger finds 
stretched out before him the widespread and productive 
farming region of Central New York. 

Here he crosses the famed v'iaduct, a work 

at which, in coming ages, tin- traveler will only glance to 
wonder at the engineering skill and genius of our day; 
then come the fair regions watered by the Susquehanna, 
the < hemung, and the Canisteo. all of them dotted with 
farms and populated by thriving and intelligent communi- 
ties. From Hornellsvile to Buffalo tin- scenerj embraces 
a magniftcenl view of the Wyoming Valley, and. finer 
still, of thi I '•'• llls °f the Genesee 

River, which here passes through a narrow, steep-walled 
gorge, and takes three successive leaps to the level of 
the valley below. Hut an hour or two's ride beyond are 
V, ,i i Falls, the fame of which is known the world over. 
Or, continuing westward from Hornellsville, th< 
ger traverses the historic re mthwestern New 

York : passes through the Cattaraugus and Alleghany 
ttion, comprising several thousand acres, which 
. ,n set apart for the use of. and are occupied by, 
the Seneca Nation of Indians, of which ti 
receive annuities from the I I 



about 



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dence, in prince])- style, with groves, 
lawns, terraces, fountains, and statuary, 
all so tastefully commingled as to at once 
strike the visitor with their beauty and 
arrangement. A visit to Eldridge Park 
should be an indispensable feature of a 
stay oi even a day in Elmira. 



STARUCCA VIADUCT. 



on, connec- 

niade with the 
Atlantic & Great West- 
ern Railway, which 
skirts the 



beautiful 



Chatauqua Lake, passes through the wonderful oil regions 
.vestern Pennsylvania, then the thickly populated 
farming regions of Northeastern Ohio, and ere he knows 
it. is at Pake Erie, in the great city of Cleveland : or, con- 
. ird, passes throu ;h the Ion » line of 
populous towns in Central Ohio, and reaches in turn Day- 
ton and Cincinnati without change of coaches sil 
ing the great metropolis. And throughout the entire 

d absorb- 
hich thi h mdiwork ol the < 'reatoi 
and the artifice of man, though blended, have continuously 
vied to beautify and adorn. 



One of the greatest engineering 
achievements on the entire route of the 
Erie Railway is the Starucca Viaduct 
pictured on the opposite page, which 
spans a great valley near the villa 
Susquehanna, Pa., by eighteen arches of 
solid masonry, each of them fifty feet in 
width. Its total length is 1,200 feet, its 
^^^^H&r" height no, and its cost was $320,000. 
j^HK The roadway passes directly over the 

'■■ '. viaduct. In sunshine or in storm, by 

night or by day, amid the snows of win- 
ter or the leafy beauties of summer, this grand work 
itands out boldly upon the landscape about it, a tribute 
to the genius and energy of man, and a source of won- 
der and admiration to the traveler, by whom it is plainly 
visible from the car windows at either end of the long 
curve of which the viaduct forms about the centre. Many 
throughout the land are familiar with it as the mo 
ent feature in that world-wide painting by Cropsey, entitled, 
" An American Autumn." 



ELDRIDGE PARK. ELMIRA. 
Many visitors 1,, Elmira avail themselves of the oppor- 
tunity afforded by the liberality of one of its wealthy pri- 
to view one of the choicest bits of park and 
landscape gardening to be found in America. This, 
known trk, is the property of Dr. E 

of Elmira, who, having amassed immense wealth, has laid 
out his estate, consisting of the -rounds about his resi- 



THE ERIE RAILWAY TELEGRAPH. 

lr additional facts were needed to show that the Erie 
Railway is a grand achievement, and well deserving the 
large and increasing patronage and popularity which it 
enjoys, by reason of the number and regularity of its 
trains, reference to its telegraph facilities should certain!} 
serve the purpose. From statistics it appeals that at the 
beginning of the present year there were in use 3.745 
wire, connected by 1,438 miles of poles. The 
number of operators required to do the business of the 
Company is about 350, and the number of telegraph 
stations or offices is over 200, of which 65 are open day 
and night. 

With such an immense number of miles of wire under 
its control, opei ful and experienced hands, it 

m.i\ readily be inferred that the business of the Erie Rail- 
way is something wonderful; and that to its teli 
facilities may safely be traced the uniform regularity in 
the running of trains, 



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THE ERIE RAIL W A Y T OURI S T . 




.INS GLEN. 
Among the natural 
and i uriosities 
nd bj the tour- 
ist in the regions trav- 
ersed by the Erie Rail- 



way, there is, it may safely be said, none 
save Niagara Falls, which will bear com- 
parison with that wild and picturesque 
gorge which of late years has become 
such a favorite resort, and acquired such 
a fame among tourists under the title of 
Wat kins Glen. It is reached bv taking 
the Erie Railway to Elmira, 274 miles 
from New York, and thence, by another 
ride <>t twenty-two miles northward over 
the Northern Central Railroad. The ad- 
jacent village of Watkins is at the head 
of Seneca Lake, a beautiful body of water 
forty miles long and from two to four 
wide, and connected daily by steamers 
with Geneva. The Glen, which is in close 
proximity to the village, is, in brief, a ver- 
tical split or gorge some five or six hun- 
dred feet deep, in a bluff of solid rock, 
through which a stream passes in succes- 
sive falls and other watery antics. 

"So beautiful," says Appleton, "did 
the late Secretary Seward consider this 
sylvan retreat, that he brought the whole 
Diplomatic Corps to visit it on the occa- 
sion of that tour in which he showed them 
the wonders of this country." Then, as 
a resort, the Glen was not generally pa- 
tronized or known, but now it is annu- 
ally visited by thousands, and its hotels 
are among the best at any of the Ameri- 
can watering places. 

A ramble through Watkins Glen, even 
at the height of a summer noonday, is 
cool and delightful. Passing through a 
series of alcoves, stairways, and bridges, 
each ending in some delightful surprise, with some fresh 
beauty beyond it. one looks up at intervals from the dark- 
ened depths of the cleft in which he stands to see above — 
oh, how far above him ! — the single little narrow strip of 
sky which reminds him of the accustomed sights of the 
outer world, and tells him he is not quite in fairy land. At 
ome points, however, tin- 1 ommingling of waterfall, rock, 
turf, and foliage, makes up a scene which might well form 
a home £01 tin- Fauns and Dryads, and which never fails 
to elicit expressions of delight from even the most stolid 
observer. 

From the summit of the mountain, too, may be had 
a superb view of Seneca Lake, the village of Watkins. 
and miles in extent of surrounding scenery The whole 
picture is one of stirring interest and romantic beauty, 
and as the ascent of the mountain is easil) accom- 
plished, no visitor to Watkins Glen should rest satis- 
fied until he has witnessed the unrivalled view which it 
affoi ds. 



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15 



HAVANA GLEN AND MAGNETIC SPRIN 
Thri 1 miles south of \\ atkins, near Si 
the pretty village of Havana, the count) town of Schuyler 
county, and, like Watkins, possessing within its bordci 
rare natural attl 

and includes some striking \ iews, e < lathe 

dral, is worth a long journey to see. The Springs, known 
respectivel) as "Cole's Spring" and the "Sanitarium." 
possess remarkable health-giving properties, and are so 
magnetically impregnated, tli.u a knife blade, after being 
held in the water a few moments, will attract to it small 
metallic substances. There are two good hotels al Ha 1 ma 
Cilen. ami the Cook Vcademy, a well-organized institution 
of learning, formerly known as the Pi . 
pies a commanding situation in the eastern part of the 
village. Havana Glen is reached by the same routes from 
New York and Philadelphia as Watkins. 




I ., , ; ,;• imcr prefer to 

n to hotel 
country life, but in b 

Hue keeping with our Ameri 

lessness. And it is to accomi 
years past the Erie Railway has, I 
ments with numerous connecting I 

cursion Tickets, embrai 

immediate line. For instant e, the 
Erie Railv hiich will 

take you m >1 to Watkins Glen, then 1 

l Jl 
Ontario, and down the magnificent St. Lawrence to Mon- 
treal ; thi 

thence to Saratoga and Albany, an v York 

via either I >ay or Nighl 1 ,im on the 

Hudson. Now, such a trip as this, if you under- 
took to buy youi tickel over each separate portion 
K of the route as you went along, would pro 

Hl^ expensive and troubL onu Bu 

ent system, von buy your entire tieket befon 
ing New York at a rate much lower than you 
would otherwise be compelled to pay, and have. 
moreover, the pi stopping over at any- 

one of the prominent points through which it 
takes you. The poinl 
ually in the trip here ski 

at random. But all summer resorts of interest 
and beauty in New York, New England, and the 
Canadas, are embraced in the series of round-trip 
summer excusion tickets annually adverti 
the Erie Railway Company. 

In addition to these, another series of tickets is 
offered for the benefit of those who can afford but 
one or two days of absence from their bus 
other duties at home. These tickets take the pur- 
chaser to the Catskills, to Monticello, to Milford, or 
some one of the hundreds of pretty places within 
one hundred miles of V » N ork, and give him a 
pleasant trip through the adjacent country, and 
fare considerably lower than 
that charged for ordinary local travel. 



"ON TIME." 
THE promptitude with which passenger trains 
on the Erie Railway have been run during the 
year is deserving of commendation. An official 
statement from the General 1 >artment 

shows t ; irrivals at New 

., trains carrying the United States Mail, 
the Ei 
of all otl 



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THE ERIE RAIL W AY TUURIS T 



ITINERARY OF THE 
RAI LWAY. 



ERIE 



NEW YORK TO NIAGARA FALLS BY DAYLIGHT. 
I.i iving New York from the foot of Twenty-third 
street, North River.al 8:45 a. m., or from the foot of Cham- 
bers street at 9 A. m.. you are conveyed to the d 

mpany at Jersey City, directly oppo- 
site New York, from which trains are despatched at fre- 
quent intervals for all stations on the line, including Roch- 
ester, Buffalo, Niagara Falls, and all parts of the Wesl and 

Southwest. 

Your objective point being Niagara Falls, and your 
purpose being in leaving New York at either of the hours 
above named, to make the trip over the Erie Railway by 
daylight, in order to witness its magnificent scenery and 
the many objects of interest and beauty which have ren- 
fame both enviable and world-wide, you provide 
yourself with tickets entitling you to an apartment or to a 
reserved chair in one of the Palace Coaches which accom- 
pany the Day Express train over trie entire route. 

The train being in readiness, you enter the Palace 

tnd are assigned by the porter in charge to what- 

isition in the coach is described on your ticket-. 

Promptly at the advertised hour of departure (9:15 A. M.) 

a signal is given, the conductor announces "all aboard," 

and the train mows from the depot. In a lew minutes 

dare -sing the Ilack- 

di uly there appears in view the 
first station on your westward journey — Rutherfurd Park, 
Put you do not stop here. Onward you pursue your 
; ; the Pa aic 1 n er al Passaic Bi idge, and pass- 
ing the beautiful suburban towns of Passaic, Clifton, and 
Lake View, when you arrive at Paterson, N. J., a manufac- 
city second only in importance to Newark, with 
which i; I by a Branch railway 11 miles in 

length. From Paterson you continue your journey through 

11 1 v in which are 

the cosy settlements of Hawthorne, Ridgew I. Hohokus, 

Allendale, Ramseys, and Mahwah, until you reach Suffern. 

. not stop. Inn . ■ e to reflect how 

1 this great highway of 

lien known as the New York & Erie Railroad) 

radiated 1 this poinl to Piermont, on the Hud 

25 miles north of New York city, and accommodati 

to the facilities then furnished for communication with 

New York. 

Leaving Suffern and glani 

rself travelling through a valley of historic and 
napo — which is also the name 
of the ne ing this are Sloatsburg, South- 

fields, and Greenwood, all of them healthful localities. 



Turner's is next reached, and here the train makes a stop. 
You experience no sense of fatigue, but on the contrary 
feel invigorated and refreshed from the journey already 
accomplished, and while the train is not in motion you 
step upon the platform of the coach and survey the "situ- 
ation." While admiring the beaut)- of the surrounding 
si enery, your attention is attracted to a Branch road which 
here intersects with the Main Line. This road runs to 
Newburgh, on the west bank of the Hudson river, passing 
the beautiful and attractive villages of Highland Mills, 
Cornwall, and New Windsor. 

The train is again under motion and new scenes ap- 
pear. You have arrived at Monroe, at which station stages 
connect with local trains for Greenwood Lake and the 
Seven-Springs Mountain, two very popular summer resorts 
Soon you pass Oxford ami reach Greycourt, from which 
plai e two Branch railways diverge, one extending to War- 
wick and the other to Newburgh, the latter being known 
as the "old road to Newburgh." It intersects with the 
new road from Turner's to Newburgh at a place called 
Vail's Gate. 

Still under full headway the train hurriedly passes 
Chester, and in a few minutes brings you in partial view 
of Goshen, where it next stops. Aside from the notoriety 
which is attached to this place from being one of the old- 
est towns in Orange county, and withal one of the pretti- 
est, it awakens in the traveller, who has read and heard of 
the fame of Goshen butter, (though he may never have 
become more familiar with it,) more than ordinary interest. 
As a place of summer resort Goshen offers peculiar attrac- 
tions, its situation being in the heart of the most health- 
ful portion of Orange county. A branch railway, 43 miles 
in length, extends from here to Kingston, on the Hudson 
river, passing through the charming villages of Mo 
ery, Walden, New Paltz, and Rosendale. A few miles 
from Kingston is the famous Overlook Mountain, of the 
Catskill range ; and a few miles distant from New Paltz. 
, is the delightful summer resort known as Lake 
Mohonk. -V branch road of 1 2 miles also connects ( loshen 
with Florida and Pine Island. 

Lout inning the journey westward through a 1 
undisputed richness and fertility of soil ; past farms which 
have produced, thrice over, more than enough to make 
their owners Independently rich, you scud by the unpre- 
tentious village of Hampton, and are shortly in sighl of 
Middletown, a village whose marvellous growth, architec- 
tural beauty, progressiveness, and attractive surroundings 
e oi" the most desirable places on the line 
of the 1 R either for summer or permanent 

["he New York State Homoeopathic Asylum for 
the Insane, of which a fine view is obtained as the train 
II) winds around the \ i situated. Mid- 

dletown i al the eastern terminus of tin- New York 



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17 



Midland Railway and western terminus of the Nev 
.Midland Railway. 

Unless specially signalled, however, no stop is made at 
Middletown, the train speeding onward as if anticipating 
your long-cherished wish to view the Shawangunk range 
of mountains, which are clearly discernible as you ap- 
proach Howell's. What a beautiful prospect! How it 
gladdens the eye, and calls into active being all of the human 
forces of imagination and admiration ! A cultivated moun- 
tain with acres of woodland interspersed, and dotted here 
and there with pretty farmhouses ! A patchwork of Na- 
ture than which no lovelier nor more enchanting could 
greet the human vision ! But how is this vast mountain 
to be traversed ? Is it a barrier to further progress ? The 
train still moves, but its speed is somewhat arrested. The 
ascent of the mountain is being made gradually along its 
eastern slope, the grade averaging about sixty feet to the 
mile. Now you are at Otisville, and soon will have reached 
the summit, when the train, without any other power than 
its own weight, goes thundering along the western slope 
of the mountain, leaving Guymard behind, and bringing 
into full view Port Jervis, eight miles distant, with its 
church spires glittering in the sunlight, and the streams 
of the Delaware and Neversink, which here converge, re- 
flecting, mirror-like, the endless variety and beauty of 
scenery which is spread out before you. Of a truth Na- 
ture has been lavish of her resources in beautifying the 
Eastern Division of the Erie Railway. But there are still 
in store for you scenes more glowing and of greater gran- 
deur than any which have yet been presented. Port Jervis 
is reached at noon, and being the terminus of the Eastern 
Division, a change of engines is rendered necessary. While 
this is being done, you step upon the platform of the depot 
or of the coach, and avail yourself of the limited time al- 
lowed to study the situation and the characteristics of the 
village. You are not weary — feel as though you never 
spent three hours more pleasantly than in the passage 
over the Eastern Division of the Erie Railway, and so, 
when the conductor cries " All aboard," you resume your 
seat in the palace-coach, and await with pleasing antici- 
pation the views to be witnessed in your progress over the 
next, or what is known as the 

DELAWARE DIVISION. 

As the train moves away from the depot, you observe 
a number of passengers who have, as you suppose, 
been left behind, but on making inquiry of the conductor, 
you learn that they arc going to Milford, in Pennsylvania, 
eight miles distant by carriage-road, or to Monticello or 
White Lake, two very popular summer resorts in Sullivan 
County, which are reached by a Branch railway from Port 
Jervis, 24 miles in length. 

The train is now under full headway You have fairly 



entered the region conspicuous for the diversity and mag- 
nificence of its scenery, when lo! a scene of transcendent 
beauty attracts and rivets your attention. Below is the 
Delaware, whose devious windings check its struggle to 
escape from its mountain-bound captivity; near at hand 
is the Delaware & Hudson Canal, alike tortuous in its 
windings, carrying to ti lets of this sec- 

tion ; while farther on and abi 1 S of the 

Delaware — mountains whose bold and rugged appearance 
no less than their wondrous height, seem to bid defiance 
to an invasion of their domain. Soon you emerge from 
this scene, passing Pond Eddy and Shohola, and in turn 
reach Lackawaxen, where the train stops. From this 
point a Branch railway extends to Hawley and Honesdale, 
penetrating the rich anthracite coal regions of Northeast- 
ern Pennsylvania. 

After leaving Lackawaxen you continue to follow the 
course of the Delaware in its tortuous and picturesque 
windings among the mountains, and are ever greeted with 
new and charming scenes, at some places intensely inter- 
esting. At Callicoon, where the train next stops, a scene 
of remarkable beauty occurs, which is only equalled by 
that of the famous Starucca Viaduct, which you witness 
after leaving Hancock and Deposit, and when near Sus- 
quehanna, at which last-named station the train stops for 
dinner. 

You have now arrived at Susquehanna, the terminus 
of the Delaware Division ; have dined at the Company's 
eating-house, where you found the table unexceptionable, 
and the attendance all that could be desired; and the trip 
thus far having proved neither tiresome nor monotonous, 
but on the contrary full of excitement and interest, you 
cheerfully resume your place in the palace-coach, and 
await the signal of the conductor for the train to proceed. 
Meantime you catch a glimpse of the extensive repair- 
shops of the Company at Susquehanna, which furnish 
employment for a large force of mechanics and laborers, 
and also of a branch railway running south to Carbondale 
and the coal mines of Pennsylvania. 

The conductor has signalled the engineer, the bell 
rings, and off speeds the train over the 

SUSQUEHANNA DIVISION. 

This Division is not so noted for its magnificent scen- 
ery as for the many flourishing and enterprising cities 
and towns which appear at frequent intervals. The coun- 
try being rather thickly settled, the weird and rugged 
scenes have given way to the more quiet and cultivated ; 
and it is this disparity between the scenery of the Dela- 
ware and that of the Susquehanna which lends additional 
enchantment to both. 

Binghamton, where the train next stops, is a city of 
rapid growth, and is generally regarded as being one of 



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the handsomest and most progressive cities of its size in 
the country. Its railroad facilities arc exceptionally good, 
offering communication with all parts. To the south 
runs the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 
through Scranton and the Delaware Water Gap ; with the 
North it communicates directly through Syracuse, Utica, 
and Oswego, while to the cast it has an outlet via the 
Albany and Susquehanna Railroad. In the immediate 
vicinity are many noted summer resorts — Cooperstown, 
Richfield Springs, Sharon Springs, and Trenton Falls, 
being the most prominent. 

Owego, the next stopping-place, is a town of consider- 
able note. A Branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna and 
Western Railroad connects it with Ithaca and Cayuga 
Lake, and the Southern Central Railroad affords it imme- 
diate connection with Auburn. 

Waverly, the next station in order, is rendered con- 
spicuous by reason of its excellent facilities for travel to 
Philadelphia and the South, and its connection with the 
bituminous coal-fields of Pennsylvania. The Lehigh Val- 
ley Railroad which intersects with the Erie at this point, 
furnishes a large and valuable traffic, and in return derives 
an equally large and lucrative business from the Erie. 
From Waverly there is also connection with Ithaca and 
Geneva via the Geneva, Ithaca and Athens Railroad. 

Elmira is next announced, and looking out of the car- 
window, you observe the sun sinking to rest. The whole 
horizon is lit up with its splendors of azure and gold ; the 
hillsides are tinged with ever-varying hues ; the valleys, 
the woodlands, the quiet country homes, all are bedecked 
in their evening array. Soon the scenes of beauty and 
interest, the panorama of constantly recurring changes 
which you have witnessed, will be enveloped in darkness. 
There are yet many views of absorbing interest on the 
route to Niagara Falls, and fixed in your resolution to 
make the entire journey by daylight, you pick up your 
satchel and other packages, and alight from the train 
when it stops at the depot. And in stopping at Elmira, 
you find yourself surrounded with all the advantages of 
larger cities. Next to Paterson it is the largest station on 
the line of the Eric Railway, and owing to its proximity to 
Havana and Watkins Glens, and its unrivalled railway 
facilities, it is decidedly the most desirable place at which 
to break your journey. The city itself has many attrac- 
tions — Eldridgc Park being the most widely known and 
generally visited. 

After breakfasting next morning at an early hour, you 
are driven to the depot, and soon hear the whistle of an 
arriving express train. It is the Pacific Express, which 
left New York at 7 o'clock the previous evening, and will 
leave Elmira at 6 o'clock. Embarking on this train, which 
is almost wholly composed of sleeping and drawing-room 



coaches, you are soon in sight of Corning, the junction of 
the Rochester Division, over which there is a large travel 
to Avon Springs, and via Bath to Lake Keuka or Crooked 
Lake. There is also a branch road running southward 
from Corning to the coal-mines of Pennsylvania. 

The train, after stopping at Corning, proceeds a few 
miles, when Addison is reached, and from here on to Hor- 
nellsville the road winds through a valley of picturesque 
beauty, watered by the Canisteo. At Hornellsvillc the 
train stops for breakfast at the Company's eating-house ; 
and while the passengers are making sad havoc of the 
good things here provided to appease their appetites, the 
coaches which are to run through to Cleveland, Cincin- 
nati, and St. Louis, via the Atlantic and Great Western 
Railway, arc detached from the train which is to go to 
Buffalo and Niagara Falls, and are removed to the track 
on the other side of the depot. 

Breakfast over, the train is again in motion, and for 
some little distance runs parallel with the train directed 
for Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and the Southwest. 
Soon they diverge, the one taking a southwesterly, and 
yours a northwesterly course. Now you have passed 
Arkport and Burns; Canaseraga is sighted, and soon you 
will have arrived at Nunda, passing meanwhile the unpre- 
tentious stations of Garwood's and Swain's. In a few min- 
utes you will be in the vicinity of Portage, and here you 
will witness one of the grandest views of which any coun- 
try can boast. From the top of the bridge which spans 
the Genesee River at this point, and over which the cars 
pass, you are at an elevation of 234 feet above the river, 
whose tortuous windings you can distinctly trace for a 
distance of more than a mile, while beneath and around 
you are successively presented, in varying magnitude, 
rapids, pools, cataracts, cascades, and waterfalls. The 
entire scene is one of the utmost sublimity ; and as the 
train moves slowly away, shutting it out from sight, you 
pause to conjecture to what extent this region would be 
visited, could it, with all its manifold beauties, but be 
transferred to the environs of the metropolis. 

At Gainesville an intersecting road leads to Silver 
Lake, a beautiful sheet of water on the wooded shores of 
which camp meeting and picnic grounds are located, be- 
sides a commodious hotel for tourists and summer board- 
ers. 

Onward moves the train, now stopping at Warsaw, 
now at Attica, and then at Buffalo. Here passengers for 
the West via the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, 
Grand Trunk and Canada Southern railways, change cars, 
while those for Niagara Falls and the West, via the Great 
Western Railway of Canada, have yet an hour's ride be- 
fore them ere will be disclosed to their vision the won- 
ders of that world-famed creation of Divinity— Niagara 
Falls ! 



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It is one o'clock. You have arrived at Niagara Falls, 
and your journey is completed. You have traversed the 

entire length of the Erie Railway between New York and 
i Falls (444 miles) by'daylight ; have passed through 
the beautiful valley of . through the historic 

if the Ramapo, and the rich dairy lands of Orange 
county; have erossed the Shawangunk range of moun- 
tains; been spellbound by the thrilling and interesting 
of the upper Delaware region; have followed the 
ings of the Susquehanna, Chemung, and Canisteo 
rivers ; have witnessed the rapids and falls of the Genesee 
river, and now, to crown all, you are face to face with the 
Falls of Niagara, commanding the most intense and awe- 
inspiring admiration of the observer. Although our artist 
has skilfully portrayed in the accompanying pages some 
of the principal features of this great wonder of nature, 
no representation or description can convey an adequate 
i le i i f the sublimity of the scene. The eye must sec the 
great volume cf rushing waters tearing over the rocks and 
tossing themselves into immense breakers, and hurrying 
madly towards the precipice over which they plunge into 
the seething basin of the Niagara 160 feet below; and the 
car must hear the tremendous roar of the cataract — min- 
gled as it h with the voice of the great Architect — in order 
to appreciate Niagara. 



NUMBER OF MILES COMPRISING THE ERIE 
RAILWAY. 

Tin: Roads owned and operated by the Erie Railway 
Company are organized into Six General Divisions, and 
each General Division is subdivided as follows : 

Eastern Division. Jersey City to Port Jervis, 88 
miles; Jersey City to Paterson, via Newark, 19 miles; 
Jersey City to Nyack, 29 miles ; Hackcnsack Junction to 
Spring Valley, 23 miles; Sufferns to Piermont, 18 miles ; 
Turner's to Ncwburgh, 19 miles ; Greycourt to Junction 
Newburgh Short Cut, 14 miles; Greycourt to Warwick, 
10 miles; Goshen to Kingston, 43 miles; Goshen to Pine 
Island, 12 miles ; Port Jervis to Monticello, 24 miles. To- 
tal miles Eastern Division and Branches, 299. 

Delaware Division. Port Jervis to Susquehanna, 104 
miles ; Lackawaxcn to Honesdale, 25 miles ; Susquehan- 
na to Carbondalc, 38 miles. Total miles Delaware Divis- 
ion and Branches, 167. 

Susquehanna Division. Susquehanna to Hornells- 
villc, 140 miles. Total miles Susquehanna Division, 140. 

Rochester Division. Corning to Rochester, 94 miles ; 
Avon to Attica, 35 miles ; Avon to Dansvillc, 30 miles. 
Total miles Rochester Division and Branches, 159. 

Buffalo Division. Hornellsville to Buffalo, 91 miles ; 
East Buffalo to Suspension Bridge, 23 miles. Total miles 
Buffalo Division and Branches, 1 14. 



\\'i n in. Hornellsville to Dunkirk, 12S 

miles ; Carrollton to Gilesvi l ital miles 

Western Di\ ision and I 

Total 1 Jul}- 1, 

1874, 1,033. 




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•THROUGH BY DAYLIGHT" OVER THE ERIE 
RAILWAY. 

Charles Lever's vivid story of a " Ride for a Day," 
sprightly as it is in its narration of rapid travel, calls up 
no such enlivening picture as that which is furnished by a 
summer-day ride across New York State in the palace 
coaches of the Erie Railway. How all but incredible 
seems the accomplishment of such a journey in so brief a 
period ! Yet the traveler after breakfasting in New York 
may take his scat in the Pullman Coach at the Erie Depot, 
and at supper time find himself in sight of the clear waters 
of Lake Erie, or within hearing of the thunders of Niaga- 
ra's mighty cataract. 

But more delightful than the mere achievement of such 



a victory over time and space, is the manner and method 
in which the feat is accomplished. For when such a glori- 
ous panorama is to be passed, no tourist intent upon 
seeing all that is beautiful and attractive in American sce- 
nerv, will for a moment think of making his midsummer 
trip on the Erie Railway in any other time than in broad 
daylight. The train speeds over the landscape, along 
mountain sides, through valleys, over bridges, and across 
broad meadow lands with the speed of a winged charger, 
pausing only at long intervals, and then pushing on again 
farther than before, seemingly grudging its few lost mo- 
ments of unavoidable delay. The traveler meanwhile 
ensconced in his cosy drawing-room or easy-chair, pro- 
tected from dust and cinders, looks out upon the rapidly- 



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changing landscape with undisguised delight as in a varied 
picture of town, city, hamlet, forest, and farm-land it passes 
before him. Here, from amid all the luxurious surround- 
ings of a first class hotel, he looks out alike upon nature's 
wildest haunts and the cultivated homes of man, and won- 
ders the while at the changes and improvements that 
man's genius and energy have wrought. Hour after hour 
brings him many miles nearer his goal, and lo ! ere day- 
light has departed the wonderful journey has been accom- 
plished. It has been to him one continued, unwearying 
scene of entertainment and enjoyment, and his first word 
of advice to his friend contemplating a tour eastward or 
westward will be, as ours is, " Do n't fail to enjoy, if you 
can, a ride through by daylight over the Erie Railway." 



THE SLEEPING AND DRAWING-ROOM COACHES 
OF THE ERIE RAILWAY. 

There is no Railway Company in the country which 
provides better accommodations for its patrons, or which 
keeps its passenger equipment in better condition, than 
the Eric Railway. 

The Drawing-room and Sleeping Coaches which are 
attached to Express trains, both west and cast, are, as is 
shown in the illustrations given, perfect paragons of beauty 
and models of comfort and luxury. 

Indeed, the entire passenger equipment of the Erie 
Railway is unsurpassed, and contributes in no small de- 
gree to the wonderful growth and increase of its passenger 
traffic. 



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EXCURSION AND PICNIC GROVES ON THE ERIE 
RAILWAY. 
The ancient Druids, however we may differ from them 
in our modern creeds, certainly had one good point in 
their worship — they chose the oak groves for their temples, 
and under those leafy shades celebrated their mystic rites. 
Now, while Druids are scarce to-day, nevertheless certain 
it is that this one excellent feature of their religion has 
been sedulously preserved, and as a proof of it we find, 
every summer, thousands of men, women and children in- 
quiring for convenient groves in which to meet and cele- 



brate some one or another festival occasion — some 
picnic, anniversary, or excursion, which ever it 
may be. 

Yes, rural groves are in demand, and the Erie 
Railway Company, with the foresight characteri- 
zing it in its provisions for public accommodation, 
has undertaken to supply them by establishing, at 
convenient intervals alongits route, shaded grounds 
enclosed and provided with tables, benches, and 
all other facilities for the convenience of Sunday- 
school or other picnic parties from the adjacent 
towns and villages. Swings and other attractions 
for the juvenile mind will be put up wherever 
practicable, boats will be provided for aquatic en- 
joyment, the grounds will be kept in perfect order, 
and, in short, everything will be done to render 
each of these groves a Paradise for picnic-goers. 
The step is a new and a good one, and is destined 
to prove annually a source of benefit to thousands 
of tired city-workers. 



CHAUTAUQUA LAKE. 
This charming body of water, eighteen miles 
long, and varying from one to three in width, is 
the farthest west of the many beautiful lakes 
which stud the surface of the Empire State, "the 
eyes of its landscape," as a poet has happily termed 
them. Chautauqua signifies, in the Indian dialect, 
" a foggy place," a term derived in this instance 
from the mist which frequently floats over its 
surface. The Erie Railway skirts the Lake's 
southern border, and from the car windows the 
passenger looks directly out upon its waters : at 
times placid as Lake Constance, at others lashed 
into fury with white caps. Lake Chautauqua is 
said to be the highest navigable water on the 
American continent, being 730 feet above Lake 
Erie, and 1,290 feet higher than the Atlantic 
Ocean. Steamboats run from Mayvillc, a beauti- 
ful and popular place of resort, at its northern 
extremity, to its southern outlet, whence small 
boats can descend to the Alleghany River. 



It may interest many readers to learn that while in 
Pennsylvania and other states there arc no lakes of prom- 
there are in the state of New York, on and near 
the line of the Eric Railway alone, no less than ten lakes, 
of which the following arc most favorably known : Green- 
wood Lake, Orange Lake, Lake Mohonk, White Lake, 
Otsego Lake, Cayuga Lake, Seneca Lake, Lake Kenka, 
Silver Lake, and Chautauqua Lake. 



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TRAFFIC RESOURCES. 



The tourist, for profit as well as pleasure, will no 
surprise the number ami vari thai continually 

throng the track, and will, perhaps, fur the first til 
i/e how great is the volume of traffic in daily transit, ami 
how complete and thorough must be the organization that 
can handle it with promptitude and despatch. Cars laden 
with live stock, coal, lumber, petroleum, ore, iron, and 
every conceivable form of manufacture and merchandise, 
pass in apparently exhaustlcss numbers, and justify the 
statement that places the Erie Railway, in respect to the 
magnitude of its tonnage traffic, foremost among the 
great Trunk Lines of the country. 

It would be deeply interesting to trace the steady 
growth of its business from small beginnings to its pres- 
ent enormous proportions. Suffice it to say that the pol- 
icy of the Company has ever been to develop the various 
mineral and agricultural resources of its line and branches, 
and to encourage the establishment thereon of large and 
important manufacturing industries. And recognizing 
the gratifying results of the past, its aim will be in the 
future to devise still more liberal arrangements, and to 
use every effort to attract new enterprises and foster those 
already in existence. To this end the transportation of 
materials for new manufacturing establishments will he 
done at about cost, and low special rates will be made for 
the shipment of the articles which they produce. 



MINERAL RESOURCES ALONG THE ERIE RAIL- | 
WAY. 

A cursory survey of the route of the Erie Railway 
shows that the limestone necessary for use in smelting 
ores is found in abundance and of superior quality. 

Large deposits of magnetic iron ores have been re- 
cently discovered on the Canada shore of Lake Ontario, 
a region for which the Erie Railway is one of the most 
available outlets to the coast. The yield of iron is report- 
ed as 65 to 75 per cent, and of a quality as rich as the 
ores of Iron Mountain, Missouri, which are in constant 
demand. Deposits of red fossilifcrous ores, yielding 45 to 
50 per cent., have also been found near Rochester, and 
extending thence for at least fifty miles eastward. 

The Sterling Iron Mines, where the first iron works 
in America were established in 1751 by Lord Sterling, are 
but nine miles distant from the Eric Railway, and con- 
nected with it by a spur or branch road. Some three hun- 
dred tons of ore are shipped from these mines daily. 

The entire Shawangunk range, which the Erie sur- j 
mounts at the western end of its Eastern Division, about 
eighty miles from New York, is also said by experts to be 
rich in rare varieties of ores. 



• These various mineral resources, locate: 

;radually build- 
ing up extensive industries along the line, and 
before long to add largely I 1 and its 

1 traffic. '• Each iron furnace, rolling mill, foundry, 
or manufacturing establishment," justly says a writer on 
this subject, "attracts to it an aggregate of population, 
through whose travel, and for the tra of whose 

supplies and products, large sums of money arc annually 
paid to carriers." 

ERIE AND THE COAL FIELDS. 

Within the past five years the coal traffic of the Erie 
Railway has assumed a vast and a constantly increasing 
importance. The branches or spurs running from the 
main line at Lackawaxen, Waverly, and Corning, respect- 
ively, into the heart of the great anthracite and bitumi- 
nous coal-fields of Pennsylvania afford an easy and rapid 
egress for the carboniferous products of those regions to 
tide-water, and furnish alone a traffic sufficient to make 
the revenues of a kingdom, while in turn bringing to the 
inhabitants of those sterile, non-agricultural sections the 
cereals and provisions of the West at cheap and advanta- 
geous rates. 

The location of the Eric Railway is peculiarly favora- 
ble to this traffic, it being the first and only great line 
north of the coal-fields communicating directly with the 
seaboard on the one hand, and with the great West and 
the Canadas on the other. From the Wyoming fields in 
Luzerne County, for instance, it is but 114 miles via the 
Eric Railway to tide-water at Ncwburgh, as compared with 
175 miles by the New Jersey Central and Lehigh Valley 
route, and 149 miles by that of the Delaware, Lackawanna, 
and Western to tide- water at New York. A considerable 
similar difference in distance exists in favor of the Erie 
over other roads in the connection with Buffalo and other 
Western points. The demand for anthracite coal in the 
West is a constantly increasing one, entering annually 
into a larger area of domestic and industrial uses. Its 
consumption at Cleveland alone, increased from 1,108 tons 
delivered by the Atlantic & Great Western Railroad in 
1870, to 17,385 tons delivered by the same Company in 
1S72; and the ratio of increase has presumably been the 
same elsewhere. With such an immense field as this to 
supply, the future possibilities of this traffic, now only in 
its infancy, are almost without limit. 

Of the eastward coal trade the same may be said, save 
that it is older and more developed. True, there is less 
domestic area to be supplied, but it is more densely popu- 
lated, and beyond it is the foreign commerce of the entire 
world. With such a market to supply, where can a limit 
be placed to the demand ? No supply, however great, can 
meet or interrupt it. 



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To confirm the justice of these statements with re- 
gard to the future of the Erie Railway's coal trade, a few 
figures may be cited, showing that in 1871 it aggregated 
in amount 2,199,418 tons; in 1872,2,989,680 tons, and 
in 1873, 3,994,832 tons. The statistics for the current 
year ending September 30, 1874, cannot yet of course, be 
presented, though showing thus far the same ratio of in- 
crease. • But when we consider the growth as already 
shown, the inexhaustible supply on the one hand, and the 
increasing demand on the other, and the facilities and ca- 
pacity afforded for its transportation, there can remain 
but little doubt that within five years the aggregate coal 
tonnage of the Erie Railway will equal that of any other rail- 
way in the country. 

PETROLEUM. 

The attention of travelers will be inevitably drawn to 
the peculiar tank cars in which the crude oil is shipped. 
The trade itself is worthy of notice from its magnitude 
and regularity, and from the fact that the Erie Railway 
has at Weehawken, opposite New York, the most complete 
and extensive oil depot and docks in the country. From 
twelve to twenty vessels at a time may be seen at these 
docks loading with export oil. Last year new tankage 
capacity for 30,000 barrels was supplied to accommodate 
the rapidly increasing traffic. 

Light and oil, illumination and lubrication, are prime 
necessities of modern civilization, and as petroleum com- 
bines in itself these essential qualities, it seems destined 
to supplant all other articles for lubricating purposes, and 
to become, outside of large cities, the general illuminator 
of the race. Since its introduction, gas works have been 
closed in many places, the manufacture of shale oil has 
been practically stopped in England, and the whaling in- 
terests of New England ports have been nearly ruined. 

The Pennsylvania oil regions, which in 1872 furnished 
88 per cent, of the entire production, are directly tributary 
to the Erie Railway. The production here has increased 
from four millions of gallons in 1859 to four hundred mill- 
ions of gallons in 1872. 



LIVE STOCK. 
The New York Statistical Annual closes its review of 
the live-stock market for 1872 with this remark: "Twelve 
million head of live-stock per annum will soon be required 
at the seaboard." The Erie Railway is making strenuous 
efforts to secure a fair proportion of this importan 
of revenue. Its stock-cars arc of extra width ; its stock- 
trains are first class, with rights of passenger trains, and 
subordinate alone to them ; a special line telegraph runs 
from station to station, by means of which drovers are 
posted as to markets ; superior yards are established at 



Oak Cliff on the Hudson, opposite New York, and in con- 
nection with them a new abattoir of the largest capacity 
and most complete appointment has just been finished. 
Commodious yards are located at Buffalo, ample grounds 
have recently been purchased at Suspension Bridge, and 
good feeding and watering yards are established along the 
line. By these and other inducements the Erie Railway 
Company is determined to maintain the reputation which 
its line has already gained of being the best stock-route 
in the country. 

LUMBER TRAFFIC OF THE ERIE RAILWAY. 
The gradual clearing away of the forests in the Atlan- 
tic states annually renders the market more and more 
dependent upon the apparently inexhaustible supplies of 
the pine forests in the Saginaw region of Michigan, and 
the black walnut growths of Ohio and Indiana. These 
regions are directly tributary to the Erie Railway, and are 
annually shipping larger quantities of their precious prod- 
ucts by it to the seaboard. Add to these the immense 
shipments of barrel staves from various Western sources 
to the East, and the extensive production of hemlock tim- 
ber along the upper Delaware and its tributaries, and one 
may readily see that from this traffic alone the Erie Rail- 
way reaps annually an immense and constantly increasing 
revenue. 

MILK TRAFFIC ON THE ERIE RAILWAY. 
As has been elsewhere stated, the Erie Railway, with- 
in sixty miles of New York, passes through one of the 
finest dairy regions in America, the far-famed agricultural 
section of Orange County. As may be inferred, therefore, 
its daily milk traffic with the metropolis is no inconsider- 
able item of its daily receipts. In fact the extent of this 
business, and the perfect system to which it has been re- 
duced, in order to facilitate the easy passage of the milk 
from the producer in the country to the consumer in the 
metropolis, would perhaps surprise the uninitiated. The 
cows arc milked at a certain time every evening ; punc- 
tually, too, at a certain hour the farmer drives up with his 
twenty, thirty, or fifty cans to the station platform ; along 
comes the daily milk train ; in a moment or two the 
brimming cans are shipped, and away the train goes on to 
the next station. Midnight sees it rumbling into the depot 
at Jersey City, where scores upon scores of milk wagons, 
on each of which is inscribed "Pure Orange County 
Milk." are in waiting to receive their consignments of the 
creamy fluid, carry it across the river, and commence 
their matin rounds to supply the now slumbering denizens 
of the great city. So, clay after day, year in and year out, 
New York is supplied with Orange County Milk by the 
thousands of gallons, and the traffic is constantly on the 
increase. Roads leading to the various stations have been 



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improved, new platforms erected, and ever) facility for 
n I rapid shipmenl afforded the farmer. A 
■ the annual ti I from 6,180,5 57 gallons 

in [862 to 11,721,481 gallons in [872, or nearl) doubled 
in ten years' time. At such a rate of increase, it is not 
difficult to foresee whal the revenues, already immense 
from this source, are ultimately destined to become. 



BUTTER. EGG, AND CHEESE TRAFFIC OF THE 
ERIE. 

Lf.t us not despise the day of small things. " Many a 
mickle makes a muckle," and many a pound of butter, bar- 
rel of eggs, and package of eheese annually brings a mini 
of money to the Erie Railway's coffers. For instance, the 
receipts of butter at New York, in 1872, amounted to 
49,65 i.,","' 1 pounds ; of eggs, to 34,876,520 dozen; and of 
io 99,713,820 pounds. The line of the Erie Rail- 
way seems to afford superior advantages to this class ol 
products, and it has been, and still is, the effort of the 
Company to protect and increase them to the extent of its 
ability. 

INCREASE OF MANUFACTURES. 
Statistical tables, carefully compiled in [865 and 
1873, show a most astonishing and gratifying increase in 
the number of manufacturing establishments on the Erie 
Railway during' the brief intervening period. The most 
important of these are given in the following table : 

MAN! FAi 11 RES. 1865. 1S73. INCRE/I 

Agricultural Implements 20 38 is_ 

Blast Furnaces and Forges 15 35"- • 20 

Builders' Materials 64 167 103 

, Car, and Locomotive Works 22 48 26 

Brass and Iron Foundries 92 11S 26 

Breweries and Distilleries - -- 135-- -• 107 

1 Broom, and Carpet Factories ---■ i.( 33--- 19 

Cabinet Ware and Furniture Factories.--- 59 --■ 111- •- 52 

Cooperage and Barrel Facunies 54 94 40 

Cheese Factories 18 72 54 

Flouring and Grist Mills 151 184 ^ 

GlassWorks 4 10 6 

Iron Railing and Fencing 30 45 - ■■ 15 

Machine Shops 35 - 88 53 

Marble Works 34 10 

Nurseries --• 47 52 5 

Oil Refineries 9 13 4 

Planing Mills and Lumbei Factori 104 •-• - 204 100 

Paper Mills - 14- ■ 23 9 

Piano and Musical Instruments --- s - - 17 9 

Soap and Candle 2S 32 4 

Saw and Shingle Mills - 240-- 350--- 1 10 

Silk Factories 14 31 17 

Sugar Refineries - 1 3 2 

Tanneries - 146 57 

Varnish Factories - 1---- 15 't 

Vinegar Factories 9-- 16 7 

Woollen Mills 12---- 18--- 6 

Wagon and Carriage Factories 74 147 73 

Miscellaneous •-■ 315 1022 707 

Total - 1702 3363 1661 

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WAY. 
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are copied from the 

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menl for year ending Septeml 
not fail to be struck with the 
in the pa 

pared with that of the other trunk lines which are its 
competitors for business. The app nent will 

indicate very clearly the force of these remarks; and it 
will be further noted, by reference to the comparative 
statement of the souk e and n that the 

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PORTAGE FALLS AND BRIDGE. 
To view this wondrous commingling of art and nature 
one were enough to invite the tourist to travel over the 



362 miles which intervene 
between it and the Me- 
tropolis. Here the rail- 
way spans a gorge with per- 
pendicular walls, through 
which the Genesee Riv- 
er leaps in three succes- 
sive falls to the level of 
the valley below. The 
bridge by which it accomplishes this feat (see 
engraving) cost £175,000, and is the largest of 
its kind in the world. It stands upon thirteen 
stone-piers set in the river-bed, and sufficiently 
above high-water mark to be secure against 
freshets. Upon these piers the bridge rises 
234 feet, and upon the top of this the railway 
track is laid. The bridge is 800 feet long, 
and so ingeniously constructed that any single 
timber in it can be removed and replaced at 
pleasure. 

Symmetrical as is this imposing structure, 
it only serves to invest with a greater beauty 
and grandeur the natural scenery around it, for 
in some places the walls of the ravine which 
it spans are nearly 400 feet in perpendicular 
height, and the traveler looks down upon a 
dizzy view of the canal and the river, each passing 
through it on a different level below. But the view from 
below is immeasurably finer. Each of the three falls is 
well worth seeing, The upper, or Horseshoe Falls, are 
about seventy feet high. The Middle Falls, about a quar- 
ter of a mile farther down, pour into a chasm 1 10 feet be- 
low. A cave called the " Devil's Oven " has been worn 
into the rocks near the bottom of this fall. For a distance 
of two miles beyond this point the river winds through 
perpendicular walls of rock, then takes a series of rocky 
steps like a stairway, disappears for a moment under a 
shelving rock, and descends into a narrow pass about 
fifteen feet in width. Falling here twenty feet, it is 



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27 




whirled back, and, turning abrupt- 
ly off, falls again into a deep pool 
overshadowed by shelving rocks. 

Two watchmen are kept on the 
bridge day and night, to put out 
any sparks which may fall from 
locomotives ; and trains are run 
at a reduced rate of speed while 
crossing it, in order to give pas- 
sengers an opportunity of enjoy- 
ing the scenery of the valley be- 
low. All who have time should 
stop at the station near by, and 
spend a few hours in a drive to the 
different falls, or in a ramble along 
the banks of the river and canal. " *S 

A poetic mind naturally compares this valley, charm- 
ing, with its high banks and walls, waterfalls and cas- 
cades, and distant fields covered with luxuriant verdure 
to the Falls of Niagara, majestic only in mighty waters. 



A description, however vivid, will afford the reader but 
a comparative idea of the grandeur and beauty of Portage 
Kails. To appreciate, one must see them, and let his own 
senses describe them for him. 



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ERIE'S COMBINATION WITH THE OCEAN STEAM- 
SHIP COMPANIES. 

Awakened to the necessity for providing increased 
facilities for Immigrants landing at the port of New York, 
and with a view also to maintaining the admitted suprem- 
acy of the port of New York over all other American and 
Canadian seaports, the Erie Railway Company some 
months since entered into an alliance with the principal 
lines of ocean steamships, known as the "North Atlantic 
Conference," under which an entire change in the system 
of booking and forwarding Immigrant passengers from 
Liverpool and all parts of Europe and the Continent to the 
United Stairs was effected. Previous to the formation 
of this compact it had been the custom of the Ocean 
Steamship Companies whose interests were identified with 
the port of New York, to book their Immigrant passengers 
to New York only, leaving it to the railways leading out 
of New York to furnish the necessary facilities for their 
transportation to their future homes in the great West. 
Under this policy, which had been prevalent for a number 
of years, and which was likely to continue had not the 
wisdom and forethought of the managers of the Erie Rail- 
way Company instituted a change, a portion of the immi- 
gration to the United States was being diverted from the 
port of New York to other unnatural and inferior Ameri- 
can and Canadian ports. 

This was accomplished by the adoption of a tariff of 
Immigrant rates, which, when added to the Ocean Steam- 
ship fare, made the through rates from Liverpool, &c, via 
Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Quebec, to Chicago and the 
West, from Si oo to S3 00 less than via New York. The 
operations of this tariff, which discriminated against the 
port of New York and in favor of the ports above-named, 
were injurious alike to the City and State of New York, 
and to the steamship and railroad interests with whose 
prosperity New York heartily identifies itself. When, 
however, the managers of the Erie Railway perfected and 
concluded negotiations with the Ocean Steamship Lines, 
the disadvantages under which the port of New York had 
i been laboring, and which threatened to seriously 
impair its commercial importance, were removed ; the 
system of booking and forwarding Immigrants was radi- 
cally changed, so that now Immigrants may purchase 
through steamship and railway passage tickets in Liver- 
pool or any part of Europe and the Continent to any part 
of the Linked States, at the same or even lower rates via 
New York than via any other American or Canadian sea- 
port. And when the Immigrant lands at the port of New 
York and is transferred to the care and custody of the 
Erie Railway Company, he finds that a wise provision has 
thrown about him every safeguard for his protection and 
immunity from imposition. He finds safe and comforta- 
able quarters at Castle Garden, surrounded by an attrac- 



tive park of several acres beautifully laid out and thickly 
studded with shade-trees, and overlooking the bay and 
environs of New York. Here, both himself and family 
may remain until they shall have recovered from the 
fatigue consequent upon an ocean voyage ; and when pre- 
pared to resume the journey to their prospective homes 
in the West, the Erie Railway Company will transfer 
them by barge, free of charge, from Castle Garden to the 
Railway Depot in Jersey City, opposite New York, and 
thence to whatever part of the West they may have pur- 
chased tickets. 

With a railway company whose managers seem so 
thoroughly to understand and appreciate the requirements 
of the Immigrant traffic, and through whose efforts so 
great a revolution has been brought about in the interest 
of the Immigrant as to enable him to secure passage as 
cheaply via the port of New York as via any other, it is 
not to be wondered at that the managers of the Ocean 
Steamship Lines cheerfully allied themselves ; and in so 
doing restored and re-established a hitherto prosperous 
business, and re-asserted the commercial importance and 
supremacy of the port of New York over all others. 



THE FORWARDING OF IMMIGRANTS FROM 
CASTLE GARDEN TO THE WEST. 

The Immigrant coming to our shores and landing at 
the port of New York, no longer finds himself the prey 
of unscrupulous persons, but, on the contrary, is protected 
from every form of imposition. 

On his arrival in the harbor of New York, directly 
opposite Castle Garden, the Immigrant comes under the 
charge of the Commissioners of Emigration, who provide 
for his transfer and that of his luggage, from the steamer 
to Castle Garden Depot. 

Here he is conducted to the rotunda of the building, 
and registers his name, age.^ nationality, &c. If he has 
friends awaiting him, he is given over into their charge; 
if he has money which he desires exchanged, the exchange 
is made at the rates current in Wall street ; if he has let- 
ters which he desires posted, the service is performed ; if 
he wishes to make any purchases of food, he can do so, at 
reasonable prices, within the enclosure of Castle Garden; 
if he feels fatigued from the ocean voyage, and requires a 
few days' rest, he can remain within the Garden free of 
expense; if he desires to take passage at once to the 
West, he can purchase his railroad tickets at the office of 
the Erie Railway in Castle Garden, at which office he can 
also have his luggage checked to destination. 

He is then conducted to the barge of the Erie Rail- 
way, which is anchored alongside the Castle Garden pier, 
and when the hour arrives for the departure of the Im- 
migrant Express train, he is transferred to the depot of 
the Erie Railway Company free of expense. 



THE ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST. 



29 



THE INDIAN RESER- 
VATION, 
On the Western Division 
of the Erie Railway, ea 
tending from Vandalia to 
Salamanca, is a vivid re- 
minder of the I'.n t that not 
over .1 centurj ago these 
fertile fields and thickly- 
settled regions were owned 
and tenanted by savage 
aborigines ; for directly on 
the line of the road, nay. 
even intersected by it, is 
the Indian Reservation, 
where twenty-five hundred 
of the descendants of the 
Seneca braves who om e 
waged such bloody war- 
fare against the pale face. 
now dwell in a state of 
comparative civilization, 
following the arts of peace. 
They are governed by a 
President, one William 
Nephew, and without the 
questionable aid of Peace 
Commissioners or traders, 

have become a respectable, peaceable, and well-organ 
community. 

SILVER LAKE. 
Among the many beautiful summer resorts in Western 
Xew York, few may be said to enjoy a larger popularity 
than Silver Lake, a beautiful sheet of water three miles 
and a half long and one mile wide, situated in Wyoming 
County, upon the highest ground in that section of the 
State. During the last season over twenty thousand visi- 
tors sought recreation and pleasure beside its clear waters 
and amid the fine groves which line its shores. The Sil- 
ver Like Railway, connecting with the Erie at Gainesville, 
skirts the easterly shore of the lake for a distance of seven 
miles, terminating at the village of Perry, one mile beyond 
which, or at the foot of the lake, is an attractive summer 
hotel known as Saxton's Silver Lake House. Just be- 
yond, on a splendid site overlooking the lake, stands an- 
other large hotel newly completed, with wide verandahs 
and elegant interior appointments. The excellent fishing 
in the lake has always made it a favorite resort for sports- 
men of the hook and line; pickerel, bass, and white-fish 
are plentiful, while sail and row boats and fishing-tackle 
are provided for the accommodation of those who desire 
them. There is also on the lake a pretty little excursion- 
steamer, capable of carrying one hundred passengers. 




A quarter of a mile 
on the lake 

the Methodist Episcopal 
twent; 

eir an- 
nual camp-meeting 

held. The grounds have 
been laid out in lots for 

which clergymen and oth- 
ers may spend the heated 
term, blending religious 
duties with social and ra- 
tional enjoyment. 



CROOKED LAKE 
Tin- lake, situated part- 
lv iu Steuben and parti)- in 
Yates County, Xew York, 
is a pleasant summer re- 
treat, and is reached by 
stage- from Bath, on the 
Rochester Division of the 
Erie Railway. It is about 
twenty-two miles long and 
one broad, and derives its 
name from the fact that at its northern end it is divided 
by a beautiful wooded promontory into two forks, one 
five and the other about nine miles long. It is also 
sometimes spoken of under the more modern title of 
Keuka Lake. Grape-growing is extensively carried on 
along its shores, which are remarkable, it may be also 
stated, for their picturesque scenery. Two steamers ply 
from Penn Yan at its foot to Hammondsport on the south 
end of the lake, and the trip in summer-time is a delight- 
ful one. 

Commodious hotels may be found at Penn Yan and 
Hammondsport, and at Grove Spring, on the east side of 
the lake, a large building ha ected as a summer 
resort, where visi forded every means of enjoy- 
ment. 

THE Erie Railway has been fortunate in the tit'. 
to some of the beautiful landscapes along its line. In a 
day's ride one may see Ramapo Valley, the American 
Switzerland— "a title which was first applied to the Rama- 
po Pass of Xew York by X. P. Willis, and which has 
since been given in turn to every spot found charming 
1 prising tourists" — Starucca Valley, "the Yo- 
Semite of the East," celebrated in Cropsey's picture of 
an American autumn scene, and the incomparable Niag- 
ara Ealls. 



30 



THE ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST. 




> \ FALLS FROM 1JEL0W 

NIAGARA FALLS. 
The Niagara River, the strait or link connecting the 
two great lakes, Krie and Ontario, though but thirty-four 
miles long, yet passes in that brief space through a tre- 
mendous struggle with the rock-ribbed battlements which 
line and traverse its current. In those thirty-four miles 



it accomplishes a total descent of three hundred and thir- 
ty-four feet, fifty-one feet of which it descends in the 
.space of three-quarters of a mile in the Rapids which 
mark its approach to the terrible leap of nearly two hun- 
dred feet more — the world-renowned Falls of Niagara. 

Over this great cataract has been pouring ceaselessly 
through the centuries of the past, with the deafening roar 
of a thousand thunders, a torrent of water three-fourths 
of a mile wide and twenty feet in depth, or an aggregate, 
it is calculated, of a hundred millions of tons per hour. 
No wonder that to this grandest of natural shrines the 
untutored aborigines were wont to come yearly to worship 
their Great Spirit, and propitiate him by the sacrifice of 
an Indian maiden, sent down on the current in a flower- 
laden canoe to her death in the terrible vortex ; no won- 
der that they led thither the first missionaries who pene- 
trated these wilds, and pointed in speechless awe to the 
mighty cataract ; and no wonder that in these later days 
thousands and thousands of tourists from every part of 
this country and Europe annually make this spot their 
destination, and stand gazing in mute surprise, as did the 
savage and the priest before them, at this wonder of the 

world ! 
j * From the American side of the Falls the vis- 

itor has access to the various rocky islands — Goat, 
Chapin's, Luna, and the Three Sisters — which 
break the face of the Falls, and enable him to 
overlook its very brink midway in the river's cur- 
rent. From this side, too, he descends to the 

Cave of the Winds, and may visit the Whirl] 1 

Chasm Tower, and the Devil's Hole. 

From the Canada side, opposite, which is 
reached by a wire suspension-bridge 1,268 feet 
long, may be viewed the magnificent sweep of 
the Cataract known as the Horseshoe Fall, 
(1,900 feet across,) the Burning Spring, the 
historic village of Chippewa, and the battle- 
field of Lundy's Lane. Or, by a railroad run- 
ning on an inclined-plane, from a point on the 
American side near the brink of the Cataract, 
the visitor may descend to the river directly 
#0*-" below the Falls, and looking upward at them 

from the deck of the ferry-boat which plies 
from shore to shore, may more than before 
realize the immensity and grandeur of the 
scene. It will leave in his memory an im- 
pression and sense of admiration that a lifetime will not 
serve to eradicate. 

The hi ara Falls are large, numerous, and 

well conducted. Great precautions are now taken by 
the authorities to insure every convenience to sight- 
seers, and to prevent extortions and impositions of every 
kind 



Til Li ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST 



3i 




PROSPECT POINT-NIAGARA PALLS. 



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THE ERIE RAILWAY TOURIST, 



BLOOMING GROVE PARK. 

Under this rather unpretentious title there exists in 
Northeastern Pennsylvania, close upon the line of the Erie 
Railway, a grand forest park of seven hundred acres, 
enclosed with a wire fence, and embracing within its lim- 
its almost every conceivable surface formation in hills, 
mountains, valleys, and undulating plateaux. Its forests 
include the oak, the hemlock, the chestnut, beech, spruce, 
cedar, maple, birch, pine, hickory, butternut, and other 
varieties of trees. The enclosure is irregular in shape, 
having been so laid out as to include the finest lakes and 
streams. By this arrangement the park, in addition to 
many miles of fine trout brooks, has within its limits no 
less than eight fresh- water lakes, the largest nearly three 
miles in circumference, and all with waters clear as crys- 
tal, and teeming with black bass and a variety of fish com- 
mon to our lakes. 

" What a tempting resort for the angler !" the reader 
will exclaim. Yes, and for the hunter and sportsman 
too. For upon these lands are to be found the black 
bear, wildcat, otter, mink, fox, coon, marmot, deer, and 
several varieties of squirrels and hares. The birds include 
the eagle, hawk, owl, blackbird, woodcock, bluebird, sev- 
eral varieties of duck, partridge, mountain finch, pigeons, 
quail, the loon, and other migratory birds. Ruffled grouse, 
woodcock, and deer, are especially numerous, and addi- 
tions to the stock are constantly being made. Engage- 
ments have been closed with hunters in various parts of 
the country, and with army officers on the frontier, to for- 
ward moose, elk, deer, antelope, Rocky Mountain sheep 
and goats, and other animals. Some English pheasants 
and a few wild turkeys have been set at liberty in the 
Park. 

The Association owning the Park may be said, in 
general terms, to have for its object the fuller develop- 
ment of field and aquatic sports. It is composed of a 
number of wealthy gentlemen, principally New-Yorkers, 
who hold a valuable charter from the state of Pennsyl- 
vania, and already own about twelve thousand acres of 
land, as well as several thousand adjoining acres leased in 
addition, of which, as previously stated, about seven hun- 
dred acres are already enclosed with wire. Suitable pro- 
visions, by means of dogs and keepers, are made against 
ig, and heavy penalties are provided for the punish- 
ment of offenders. 

The accessibility of the Park to New York, being only 
about twelve miles distant from Lackawaxen, or four hours' 
rile via the Erie Railway, makes it a convenient place of 
resort for members of the Association, their faun 
invited guests, who here find every variety of enjoyment, 
while experiencing the benefits resulting from the health- 
fulness of the locality. 



CONNECTIONS OF THE ERIE RAILWAY. 

From various points on the Erie Railway, extending, 
as it does, from the Hudson to Lake Erie and the Ohio 
River, and traversing regions in which are successively 
represented every variety of natural resources, diverge 
connecting lines, which may not inaptly be designated the 
vertebrae, of which the Erie is the spinal column. Let us 
glance briefly at these, and at the regions to which they 
lead us. 

At Middletown the Erie connects with the New York 
and Oswego Midland Railway, recently opened through 
to Oswego, the greatest grain emporium on Lake Ontario. 
At Lackawaxen, diverges the Honesdale Branch, running 
directly into the heart of the Pennsylvania coal region. 
At Binghamton, three tributary roads come in — the Al- 
bany and Susquehanna, extending to Albany, the state 
Capital ; the Syracuse and Binghamton Railroad, extend- 
ing to Syracuse and Oswego, and the Delaware, Lacka- 
wanna and Western Railroad, coming in from Scranton 
and the South, and running to Utica. At Owego a branch 
of the latter road also diverges to Ithaca, the seat of 
Cornell University, and the Southern Central Railroad 
connects for Auburn. At Waverly comes in the great 
Lehigh Valley Railway, extending from Easton, and form- 
ing in connection with the North Pennsylvania Railroad, 
a favorite route between Philadelphia and Niagara Falls 
and the West. At Elmira, the Northern Central Rail- 
road, running north and south, intersects the Erie. Here 
also come in the Chemung Canal, connecting with Seneca 
Lake, and the Junction Canal, leading southward to the 
coal fields. At Corning diverges the Blossburg Railroad, 
and running northward is the Rochester Division. At 
Hornellsville the main line divides into two great forks or 
branches, the one running to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, 
and the other to Salamanca and Dunkirk. At Salaman- 
ca connection is made with the Atlantic and Great West- 
ern Division, extending to Cincinnati and Cleveland. At 
Dunkirk connection is made with the Lake Shore and 
Michigan Southern Railway. At Buffalo, the trains of 
the Erie Railway connect with those of the Lake Shore 
& Michigan Southern, Grand Trunk and Canada South- 
ern Railways. At Suspension Bridge, connection is 
made with the Great Western & Michigan Central Rail- 
way. 

The Erie Railway, it will thus be seen, lays under di- 
rect tribute to itself, an immense area of country, em- 
bracing, to a greater or less extent, the entire grain-pro- 
ducing regions of the West. Navigable rivers and canals, 
connecting railroads and inland lakes, all vie in bringing 
to it an amount of freight and travel, which may well 
justify its being ranked among the mosl important of our 
national highways. 



MAP OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 

Showing the location, of the Frtight and Passenger Station*, Ferries, 
Street Car Lines, Offices, Terminal facUUitt A Connections of the 

Erie Railway 

AND THE 

OCEAN STEAMSHIP LINES. 



REFERENCES 

1 Erie Railway 1-assenger & Freight Depot, foot of Chambers St, 

2 •• •• " " " " •• Twenty-third SL 

3 •■ •• General Offios, Tir. „i ; ,-ihin/ */. & Eighth Avenue. 

4 •• •• Tick.! A Fi;i<iht office, 'Xfl llroaitwai/. r,„. if Twenty-third I 

5 .. « « 629 " " Spring St. 
g •• •• •• •• "211 " opposite ciiijlluiL 

7 ■• Freight Pier, East Hirer. 10 Cooper Institute. 

8 " Ticket Office, M Hudson St. ;.;w™. 11 Union Bqvre. 

9 Academy of Music 12 XtuOaon Savon. 




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